Ivan Pastine

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Ivan Pastine earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown
University in Washington DC. Before joining the School of Economics in UCD, he
worked at the Division of International Finance at the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System in USA and at Bilkent University in Turkey as an
assistant professor. He also lectured at the University of British Columbia in
Canada as a Visiting Associate Professor. He served as a Research Affiliate in International Macroeconomics in
CEPR, a London-based think tank. He contributes as a programme committee member
to numerous conferences of professional associations such as the European
Economic Association, and the Association of Southern European Economic
Theorists. He served as a Local Organization Committee Member for the European
Meeting of the Econometric Society Annual Conference and for the European
Economic Association Meeting. Dr. Pastine has wide research interests
contributing in the fields of public economics, industrial organization,
economics of education and international economics. His recent research focuses
on public policy and political elections. He publishes in leading international
journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, International
Economic Review, Public Choice, Economics Letters, Economics
of Education Review and International Journal of Industrial
Organization. His work ontheoretic explanations of financial crises
have been published in international journals such as Journal of
International Economics and Economic Theory and are used as required
reading in the Ph.D. programs at Harvard and the LSE. Ivan has been a handyman,
a Boatswains Mate in the US Navy before staring his career in economics.

Pastine, I. and Pastine, T. (2002) Coordination in Markets with Consumption Externalities: The Role of Advertising and Product Quality . In: David K. Levine and William Zame eds. 2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society [Details]

Teaching Philosophy

I have great belief in students¿ potential and take pride in establishing an intellectual foundation for their future endeavors. My students hold positions of responsibility at large consulting firms/banks and do their PhDs at graduate schools such as UCLA & Northwestern and have become faculty at MIT & University